Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Sports as Cultural Production and Representation -- Masculinity, Misogyny, and Race in Sport -- National Identity and Political Confrontation in Sports Competition -- Filmography -- Notes -- Part One: Sport as Cultural Production and Representation -- Endless Summer: Consuming Waves and Surfing the Frontier -- Surf Exploitation and the Teenage Consumer -- The Development and Commodification of Californian Surfing -- The Endless Summer: Constructing the Known/Unknown -- The Endless Summer: Surfing the Frontier, Selling the Wave -- Notes -- "I'm Against It!": The Marx Brothers' Horse Feathers as Cultural Critique -- or, Why Big-Time College Football Gives Me a Haddock -- Notes -- Bobby Jones, Golf, and His Instructional Reels -- Works Cited -- Televised Golf and the Creation of Narrative -- History -- Form and Narrative -- Discussion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- What's Natural about It?: A Baseball Movie as Introduction to Key Concepts in Cultural Studies -- What's Natural about It? Getting Started with Ideology -- Roy Hobbs as America: Reading Metaphoric Characterization -- New Incarnations of Old Mythologies: Celebrity, Fame, and Visibility -- Representations of Gender: "Natural" Archetypes and Patriarchies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part Two: Masculinity, Misogyny, and Race in Sports Films -- You Throw Like a Girl: Sports and Misogyny on the Silver Screen -- Setting the Scene -- All Women Are Not Equal -- Nationalism and Olympic Rebirth -- Lights, Camera, Action -- Sports on the Silver Screen -- The "All-American" Hero -- The Distaff Side -- "Women Weaken Legs" -- "Ball Players? I Haven't Got Ball Players." -- "We're Honored to Have the Lady Athlete" -- Gender Slurs -- Girls Are the Worst! -- The Only Thing Worse Is Bein' a Fag.

The Critic's Corner -- That's a Wrap! -- Works Cited -- As American As . . . : Filling in the Gaps and Recovering the Narratives of America's Forgotten Heroes -- More than a Game: Challenging White Supremacy through Narrative Performances -- Before the Year All Hell Broke Loose: Black Baseball and the Coming of Jackie Robinson -- Keeping the Legacy of Black Baseball Alive -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Basketball's Great White Hope and Ronald Reagan's America: Hoosiers -- Notes -- "Just Some Bum from the Neighborhood": The Resolution of Post-Civil Rights Tension and Heavyweight Public Sphere Discourse in Rocky -- Rocky's Historical Context: The Post-Vietnam Predicament -- Ideology and the Boxing Film: The Industrial Yeoman of the Urban Frontier -- Discursive Arenas: Boxing Ring as Metaphor for Civic Exchange -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Fighting for Manhood: Rocky and Turn-of-the-Century Antimodernism -- Note -- Works Cited -- Part Three: National Identity and Political Confrontation in Sports Competition -- Do You Believe in Miracles?: Whiteness, Hollywood, and a Post-9/11 Sports Imagination -- Rememory: 9/11 and a Changing American Imagination -- Why? The Importance of Studying White-Centered Sports Films -- Miracle: A Found Nation -- Inferior Athletes, Superior Teammates and Workers -- No More Miracles -- Works Cited -- An Olympic Omnibus: International Competition, Cooperation, and Politics in Visions of Eight -- A Producer's Package -- Warming Up and Cooling Down: Athletics as Metaphor for Cinematic Episodicity -- Giving Out Golds: Spectatorial "Scorecards" -- A Vision of the Future -- Notes -- Why He Must Run: Class, Anger, and Resistance in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner -- Looking Back at "Angry Young Men" -- The New Wave: The Angry Young Man on Film -- Individualism, Collectivism, and the Sports Trope.

The Rebellion of the Long Distance Runner -- Colin Smith: Rebel with a Cause? -- Work Cited -- "Every Nation Needs a Legend": The Miracle of Bern and the Formation of a German Postwar Foundational Myth -- "Normalization" through Soccer? West Germany's Quest for Acceptance -- Soccer as a Means of Repressing the Nazi Past -- Forging a German Collective Identity: The Unifying Power of Soccer -- "Wir sind wieder wer!" The "Economic Miracle" and the German Version of the American Dream -- Conclusion: 1954-2006 -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index.